Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Trapan

Trapan , noun

[Old French trappan. See Trap, and compare Trepan a snare.]

A snare; a stratagem; a trepan. See 3d Trepan. — South

Trapan , transitive verb

To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan.
Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia. — Anson